Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
    8.9.2.1002 Production Version
    Release Notes


20 August 2009

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Supported Operating Systems

    Microsoft Windows 7*

    Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Edition*

    Microsoft Windows Vista*
    Microsoft Windows Vista x64 Edition*
    Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition*
    Microsoft Windows XP Professional*
    Microsoft Windows XP x64 Edition

    Microsoft Windows Server 2003* ++
    Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition*++

    Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition*

++ Not available on mobile platforms

 

Revision History

Date

Driver Revision

Build Number

20 August 2009

8.9.2.1002 Production Version

1002

13 August 2009

8.9.2.1002 Production Candidate

1002

16 June 2009

8.9.0.1023 Production Version

1023

11 June 2009

8.9.0.1023 Production Candidate

1023

14 April 2009

8.9.0.1014 Beta

1014

20 February 2009

8.9.0.1006 Alpha

1006

Notes:  

1. This 8.9 Release does not support Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (32 and 64 bit)

2. Possible Issue regarding File writes on Windows XP with Service Pack 2

Issue description: System hangs, ERROR_NO_SYSTEM_RESOURCES or ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_QUOTA observed when writing large numbers of files on Windows XP with Service Pack 2.

Resolution: Contact Microsoft* to receive the hot fix described by KB article 888413.

 

Known Issues

Known Issues in Production Version 8.9.2.1002

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2688481

Errors seen after volume data verification on expanded RAID volumes

Vista, XP

2688477

Fail to modify Recovery Volume via "Volume Modify"

Vista, XP

2688400

No illustration & detail appear in IMSM Basic View while RAID1 is Rebuilding

Vista, XP

2688383

Port Number and Number of Disks shows incorrect in Basic Mode View

Vista, XP

2688382

No information of RAID0 "Failed" appear in IMSM Basic View

Vista, XP

2549948   

Creation of a RAID0 volume fails when disk used for creation is a spanned or dynamic disk

Vista

2519035   

D-state cycling single disk during initialization 3 drive RAID5 causes volume to fail after pulling power to a single drive

Vista

2518139   

User Interface Basic mode displays unknown port when 2 disks have smart errors

Windows XP

2332390   

JPN: inconsistent font style and font size in Create Recovery Volume dialog

Vista, Windows XP

106842   

'Volume Creation Completed' message covered by Intel Matrix Storage Manager User Interface

Windows XP

2330169   

CHS: Next button corrupted on Welcome screen of Create Recovery Volume Wizard, Convert Recovery Volume to RAID 1 Wizard, and Modify Recovery Volume Wizard.

Vista

2552285   

Unable to create RAID volume when sufficient drives are present after hot-remove/reinsert

Windows XP-64

2553015   

When initiating RAID1 rebuild will get message “Wizard unable to start rebuild process” but rebuild happens

Windows XP

2330162 

User Interface Progress dialog: progress bar missing, bitmap corrupted or missing, or cut text

Vista

2553091

Check for Correct Recovery Volume, selecting BACK during creation causes recovery drive to change

Vista-64

2554032

Partition disappeared but the ‘disk’ did not in Vista failing RAID 10 testing

Vista

2554217

 

IOMeter* sequential writes on 6-disk R5 slow

All OS’s

2554610

IAAMonitor App not responding while shutdown after Safe Mode installation

Windows XP

2554680

File write performance degraded with Gen II drives and Cache On

Vista, Windows XP

2553965

Unable to load driver using f6 during system repair or system restore process under Vista

Vista, Vista-64

77332

Failure to enumerate disk causes crash in Intel Matrix Storage Manager

Windows XP

2553384

SATA ODD never gets spin down request or D1 power event

Vista

2554879

Driver property page port location information is incorrect on Cantiga

Windows XP

2555515

system lock due to low memory - with DVD playing and IO

Windows 2003

2556588

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Degraded/Normal/Master Offline goes Normal on failed volume

Vista

2556593

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Degraded/Syncing state, recovery disk failure/remove does not match state table

Vista

2556715

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Sync does not re-start with invalid partner in manual sync mode

Vista-64

2556718

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Basic Mode - Extra port number shown on the right side of the Volume Picture

Vista, Vista-64, Windows XP

2556799

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: Fast sync log is corrupt if no data is written to new volume

Vista-64

2556732

DC Mode – “ Enable continuous mode”  button label does not change in basic mode once the recovery volume level is changed from 'request' to 'continuous',

Windows XP

2556766

Modification of one volume fails during migration of a different volume

Vista,Vista-64,Windows 2003,Windows XP,Windows XP-64

2556767

Creating a volume from an existing disk during migration of another volume returns an error message that the existing the wizard need to close before opening a new wizard

Vista,Vista-64,Windows 2003,Windows XP,Windows XP-64

2556995

UI_HEB_ARA: Unlock Hard Drive messages need to be RTL-enabled

Vista

2557173

ATA command SET MAX ADDRESS EXT does not work properly on Vista64

Vista-64

2662461

Action unavailable to “Delete volume” or “Reset HDD to Non RAID” in Intel® Matrix Storage Manager console, when you try to delete a unsupported recovery volume or reset the member disk of the recovery volume under Intel® Matrix Storage Manager console on ICH9R

Workaround: To delete recovery volume or reset disk to non RAID, go to OROM UI

Windows XP-64

2662524

0xD5 BSOD with Driver Verifier While Hot Plugging from one drive to another on same port

Vista-64

2662475

A Dirty Shutdown of a Recovery volume while in DC mode will cause the volume to fail instead of causing the fast-synch log to be invalidated

Windows XP

2556947

0x7B BSOD after install driver in AHCI mode when drive with metadata in the system

Vista-64

2662540

RAID volume rebuilding happens on different volume than it is suggested by UI Wizard when two degraded volumes are available on the system

Windows XP

2662548

Text misaligned in Modify Volume Wizard 3rd screen

Vista

2662561

Intel matrix storage manager stall I/O to a disk connected with bad sata cable and does not restart

Vista

2662520

Intel Rapid Recover Technology: UI wizard allows user to select non-OS drive as a master drive when there are only 2 drives

Vista

2662523

Creation of raid volume failed when another drive [which is not involved in setup] is pulled out. Issue does not occur with scenario "create from existing"

Vista

2662501

UI_HEB_ARA: Bitmap image appears in title of Create Recovery Volume Wizard screens

Vista

2687790

HIPM/DIPM mixed mode-Device Initiated Power Management is not working for SATA ODDs

Vista

2687769

UI-ARA-HEB-ELL-RUS-8.5.0.9154-MUI RCR: Port names are corrupted in the Basic Mode after creating RAID 1 volume

Windows XP

2330162

UI Progress dialog: progress bar missing, bitmap corrupted or missing, or cut text.

Vista

2330169

CHS: Next button corrupted on Welcome screen of Create Recovery Volume Wizard, Convert Recovery Volume to RAID 1 Wizard, Convert RAID 1 to Recovery Volume Wizard, and Modify Recovery Volume Wizard.

Vista

2332390

JPN: inconsistent font style and font size in Create Recovery Volume dialog

Vista

2556995

UI_HEB_ARA: Unlock Hard Drive messages need to be RTL-enabled

Vista

2687830

UI(ELL/HUN): Cut text in dialogs with " - Encrypted" string

Vista

2687894

UI-HUN-1019-The first option-" Enable Continuous Update"- on the right click menu of recovery Volume has corrupted characters.

Windows XP

2687971

UI-CHT-Incorrect Translations on Error message when migrate a volume with encrypted hard drive

Vista

2687995

When a missed locked member disk of a degraded raid1 volume is plugged back and  unlocked in the BIOS, the locked member disk of the  raid 1 volume shows a status of "failed" in the IMSM UI or "Error Occurred" status at the OROM UI

Windows XP

2688016

Reads to a pass-thru drive hang during migration of 3 drive  RAID 0 volume to 4 drive RAID 0 volume and intermittent BSOD happens upon deleting the volume after hang when the Intel matrix storage manager console is open

Vista

2688060

Expansion of volume failed from four disk RAID5 to five disk RAID5

Vista-64

2688076

After enabling recovery drive in OROM and rebooting to OS upon master drive failure, Intel Matrix Storage Console failed to display the “Switch to Advance Mode View” button and partially displayed the Basic Mode GUI.

Workaround: Go to “View->Advance Mode” to see the drives and parameters

Windows XP

2688092

Disk Manager Does Not Show RAID Volume After Unlocking Passwords on Member Disk(s) in the Intel Matrix Storage Manager console

Vista

2688093

A Degrade Rebuild on a > 2TB volume fails with unexpected verification errors during a rebuild

Vista-64

2688191

Unable to boot to ‘On Request’ ‘Recovery’ drive that was part of a recovery volume i.e ghosted when ITM is enabled

Vista

2688235

‘reverse sync’ does not continue when master disk is removed during the sync and reinserted in system

Vista,Vista-64,Windows XP

2688271

Attempting to Cancel Disable Continuous Update Proceeds with Action Anyway

Vista-64

2688316

BSOD d5 booting from recovery disk and setting it to manual sync

Vista-64

2688388

Basic mode UI shows RAID creation options while volume is initializing

Windows XP

2688437

Immediately After Creating IRRT Volume Selecting Disable Continuous Updates Causes OS to Hang

Windows XP-32bit

2688443

Basic Mode Shows Incorrect IRRT Volume Update Status after disconnecting on of the disks in the recovery volume

Windows XP

2688453

System Unstable After Entering/Resuming from S3 after RAID volume is unlocked in the UI

Windows XP

2688454

When a RAID volume has at least one locked disk in it, the right-click options for the volume still show options available when there shouldn't be any options available for a locked volume.

Vista,Windows XP

2688456

HDDPWD-Matrix storage console does not show locked volume icon with RAID 5 volume containing locked disks

Windows XP

2688459

HDDPWD-BSOD D5 after disconnecting locked drive during rebuild

Vista-64

2688463

HDDPWD-After Entering BIOS Password for Locked Disk During Resume from S4 Disk/Volume still shows as Locked

Windows XP-64

2688466

HDDPWD-After Disconnecting Locked Disk From RAID1/5/10/recovery Volume, the Volume is Shown as Degraded But is Not Exported to OS

Windows XP-64

2688468

HDDPWD-The message shown when exceeding the limit for incorrect password entries is misleading instructing the user to reboot the system to try again instead of shutdown

Vista

2688482

After manual scan in the UI when the drives part of a RAID 1 volume are removed, volumes will still be shown as degraded, and the drives that were not pulled in the test are shown as missing

Vista

2688488

BSOD 7E Occurred During Power management and ‘Access recovery drive files’ Cycling

Vista,Vista-64

2688501

OS fails to load When disk write caching is turned Off using HTS721080G9SA00 Drives

Vista,Windows XP

2688691

Metadata is stored on target HDD when the UI blocks creation of IRRT volume

Vista

2723557

Full array expansion w/ new disk fails

Vista,Vista-64,Windows XP-64

2723596

7E BSOD when hot plugging Intel(R) RRT member disk during volume update.

Vista

2723749

Hot-plug e-sata/ODD results in OS and external ports to disappear from UI in AHCI mode where the disk manager still see's the drives

Vista,Windows XP

2723883

No hard drive or volume status in Basic View when booting from Recovery disk

Vista-64

2723887

Disk goes into unknown state when expanding a RAID5 volume

Vista-64,Windows XP

2723895

Driver exports recovery disk for IRRT volume when recovery drive is unplugged and reinserted during a manual sync causing the system to hang on ICH9R

Windows 2008

2723989

BSOD 7B seen intermittently after Win7 install on ICH8R

Win7

2723998

Disks going offline after deleting RAID 1 or IRRT volume

Workaround: Win7 includes a change to mark newly discovered disks offline if they have the same signature as an already existing disk.  This happens in IRRT/RAID1 because the recovery drive is a mirror of the master.  You can manually go into disk management and mark the disk online to get around the issue

Win7,Win7-64

2724015

IMSM 8.9 AHCI driver fails to F6 install and BSOD 7B is seen on Windows XP OS intermittently

Windows XP

2724018

Restart after capacity expansion fails on 2TB testing

Win7

2724020

Piketon System locks up during migration and expansion from RAID0 to RAID5

Windows XP

2688135

IMSM Console can configure eSATA HDD as a spare HDD on sku’s that block ESATA for RAID volume creation

Vista-64

2688381

RAID F6 driver when installed twice causes BSOD

,Vista

2688509

Automatically DVD playing fail to start with showing Windows error Dialog with Corel* WinDVD application

Vista

2724057

Creation of a RAID 1/Recovery volume from OS results in intermittent drive hangs and upon reboot marks the source drive as failed. Volume marked as normal upon rebuild to the failed drive once recovered

Vista, Win7

2724060

Recovery volume is not visible under ‘My Computer’ when Access Recovery Volume selected in Win 7.

Workaround: Win7 includes a change to mark newly discovered disks offline if they have the same signature as an already existing disk.  This happens in IRRT/RAID1 because the recovery drive is a mirror of the master.  You can manually go into disk management and mark the disk online to access the recovery drive

Win7, Win7-64

2724072

PCH desktop fails transition from Migrating to Normal after Raid Expansion

Win7

2724079

Driver Version not found in System Report on Cantiga AHCI mode

Windows XP-64

2724082

HDDPWD-After S3/S4 a Previously Unlocked Volume is Shown as Locked But is Exported to OS

Win7-64

2724329

Verify Volume Data finds errors after Win7 upgrade on Recovery volume

Workaround: Set the recovery volume in manual mode before upgrading to Win7

Win7

 

 
                    Resolved Issues

Resolved Issues in Production Candidate 8.9.2.1002

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

3004469

0xC4 BSOD encountered at times during WLK1.4 Common Stress Scenario w/IO test

Windows7

3004448

0xC2 BSOD encountered at times during WLK1.4 Common Stress Scenario w/IO test

Windows7

3004619

0xCC BSOD encountered at times during WLK1.4 Common Stress Scenario w/IO test

Windows7

Resolved Issues in Production Candidate 8.9.0.1023

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2688063

Data Miscompare on a RAID 5 Disk Expansion

Vista, Vista-64

2723630

OROM RAID creation with large capacity disks results in a 432 GB volume

N/A

2723633

OROM returns multiple errors when creating a full sized Recovery volume with 1.5TB HDD's

N/A

2724021

AHCI SATA Controller does not re-enable after disable

Windows 2003, Windows XP

2724029

Going into S4 causing BSOD 9086 after removal of eSATA HDD

Vista-64, Win7, Win7-64

2724059

WHQL: BSOD (StopCode 0x50) during Dynamic Partitioning on Server 2008 R2 (BLOCKING)

Windows 2008-64

2724110

Intel(R) RRT Unable to boot from recovery drive (when enabled in OROM) after mounting partner disk in UI

Vista, Vista-64

2724014

ODD doesn't consistently get detected w/Warm Swap during S3 and platform fails to enter S3 anymore afterwards

Windows XP

2724065

BSODs with S3/S4 and/or hot plug

Vista, Vista-64

2724098

WHQL: BSOD (StopCode 0xC9) during Device Path Exerciser on XP (BLOCKING)

Windows XP, Windows XP-64

2724230

Set LED defaults to off

Vista , Windows 2003

2724232

Multiple Interrupts resulting in missed hot plug insertions

Vista

2724307

When I/O to an ATAPI device returns with an error results in possible BSODs

Vista, Win7

2724311

WHQL: BSOD (StopCode 0xD1) during Hibernation/Crashdump on 64-bit RAID (BLOCKING)

Vista-64, Win7-64, Windows 2003-64, Windows XP-64

2724360

WHQL: BSOD (StopCode 0xA) during Device Path Exerciser on Piketon XP64 AHCI (BLOCKING)

Windows XP-64

2724445

D1 BSOD when hot plugging ODD - D1 driver_irql_not_less_or_equal

Vista

2724459

CPRM DVD can't be played with WinDVD

Vista, Vista-64

2724473

Hot Plug of eSATA devices leads to 0x9086 BSOD intermittently

Vista-64

2688040

Intel Matrix Storage Manager cannot intermittently detect hotplugs when LPM is enabled and a SATA repeater is present on the sata port path

Vista

2723554

System hung up after reading file including medium error (bad block) on AHCI system.

Vista,Vista-64

2724019

Continuous IO to Intel(R) RRT BrokenClone causing BSOD 9086 on Piketon

Windows XP-64

Resolved Issues in Beta 8.9.0.1014

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

2723955

BSOD D3 Performing S4 on Piketon

Vista, Windows XP-64

2688392

Conversion from RAID 1 to Recovery volume completes even if the wizard is cancelled

Vista, Vista-64, Win7, Windows XP, Windows XP-64

2723864

Data miscompare, with CACHE ON/OFF, during bad block raid1 error injection test

Vista, Windows 2003, Windows 2008

2723865

UI hangs for about 1 minute when hot plugging drive in AHCI mode

Vista, Windows XP

2723911

0x9086 BSOD from iaStor.sys while running S3 on ITM v1.9.0.1006 + IMSM v8.8.0.1009 using IMSM/2GB/32bit/IMSWCP/DC

Vista

2688529

Window OS does not boot with PC Card

Vista, XP

Resolved Issues in Alpha 8.9.0.1007

Reference No 

Description

Affected OS's

None